Exhibit chronicles the hard story behind UGA's desegregation

ATHENS - For Laura Stott, it was an emotional struggle to put together an exhibit that chronicles the story of desegregation at the University of Georgia. <br> <br> Scott in the university&#39;s adviser for student affairs. She said after looking through newspaper clippings and photographs of the anger and hatred that surrounded the school&#39;s integration in 12961, she went back to her office very depressed. <br> <br> The result of her work is ``Challenge to Change&#39;&#39; at the Tate Student Center Art Gallery. The exhibit ends tomorrow. <br> <br> She said, ``I felt really sad to think back in general to what our society was like. It was hard, especially seeing these people so young and angry, and knowing today they&#39;d probably be the same.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> Stott said the most chilling photos were those of smiling students, chatting casually as one among them yells at Charlayne Hunter (now Hunter-Gault) and Hamilton Holmes, the first black students at Georgia. <br> <br> Then there are the newspaper clippings, in which Hunter and Holmes were described as the ``light-skinned Negroes.&#39;&#39; <br> <br> Today, about six percent of the 32,300-member student body at Georgia is black. One student praised the exhibit in the show&#39;s comment book, but noted the lingering racial tension: ``We still have a long way to go.&#39;&#39;

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